Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Tell Us Your Favorite Outdoor Quote, Win Free Gossamer Gear Stuff!

UPDATE: The winner is Killerbee938. Congratulations! Please email me with your address so we can ship your swag. The contest is now closed.

The lucky winner of this contest will receive a nice little package from Gossamer Gear including:

1. One Thinlight 3/8" sleeping pad

2. One Medium Polycryo Ground Cloth

3. One Lighten Up DVD

RULES: Winner will be chosen at random Friday, March 11th 2011 at 6:00 PM MST. To be entered in the contest, all you have to do is reply to this post (no emails please) with your favorite quote about the outdoors. Good luck and I look forward to hearing your quotes!

138 comments:

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.”.John Muir

"To awake in the freshness of morning and know that one is part of the rising sun, the orange-tinted fog, the vibrant earth, themagnificence of growth, is to discover an affinity that comes closer to life's fulfillment than any other..."

Every trip when I get up I think of John Muir's quote:"How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains."

I got into an argument with a girlfriend inside of a tent. That's a bad place for an argument, because then I tried to walk out and slammed the flap. How are you supposed to express your anger in this situation? Zipper it up really quick? -Mitch Hedberg

I know you asked for quotes and there are many, but how about an outdoor poem?

Trees - Joyce Kilmer

I think that I shall never seeA poem lovely as a tree.A tree whose hungry mouth is prestAgainst the earth's sweet flowing breast;A tree that looks at God all day,And lifts her leafy arms to pray;A tree that may in summer wearA nest of robins in her hair;Upon whose bosom snow has lain;Who intimately lives with rain.Poems are made by fools like me,But only God can make a tree.

This is the quote I live by. I really messed up my body a few summers ago by pushing too hard and too fast, ignoring what my body was saying in order to get to the top. Now, I make sure that if I get to the top, I'll still have enough steam to get back down without any lasting injuries.

"While in the forest, shoot nothing but pictures, kill nothing but time, leave nothing but footprints and bring home nothing but memories." - I thought it was from lnt.org, but now I googled it and found it here - http://artibaldo.tripod.com/arts/

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods; There is a rapture on the lonely shore; There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but Nature more...- Lord Byron

“Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.”

"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds."- Edward Abbey

The Road goes ever on and onDown from the door where it began.Now far ahead the Road has gone,And I must follow, if I can,Pursuing it with eager feet,Until it joins some larger wayWhere many paths and errands meet.And whither then? I cannot say.-Bilbo Baggins, Lord of the Rings

"“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.” - John Muir

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." -Henry David Thoreau, in Walden

"My particular dread--the vivid possibility that left me staring at tree shadows on the bedroom ceiling night after night--was having to lie in a small tent, alone in an inky wilderness, listening to a foraging bear outside and wondering what its intentions were."

"There are three kinds of pipe. There's aluminum, which is garbage. There's bronze, which is pretty good, unless something goes wrong. And something always goes wrong. Then, there's copper, which is the only pipe I use. It costs money. It costs money because it saves money." Cosmo Castorini, Moonstruck(aka, "why Gossamer, and not a cheaper knockoff")

"There is an intense but simple thrill in setting off in the morning on a mountain trail, knowing that everything you need is on your back. It is a confidence in having left the inessentials behind and of entering a world of natural beauty that has not been violated, where money has no value, and possessions are a dead weight. The person with the fewest possessions is the freest."

"Some people hear the song in the quiet mist of a cold morning..... But for other people the song is loudest in the evening when they are sitting in front of a tent, basking in the camp fire's warmth. This is when I hear it loudest ...." Bill Mason

A weird, lovely, fantastic object out of nature like Delicate Arch has the curious ability to remind us – like rock and sunlight and wind and wilderness – that out there is a different world, older and greater and deeper by far than ours, a world which surrounds and sustains the little world of men as sea and sky surround and sustain a ship. The shock of the real. For a little while we are again able to see, as the child sees, a world of marvels. For a few moments we discover that nothing can be taken for granted, for if this ring of stone is marvelous then all which shaped it is marvelous, and our journey here on earth, able to see and touch and hear in the midst of tangible and mysterious things-in-themselves, is the most strange and daring of all adventures.-Edward Abbey

"We do not go into the woods to rough it; we go to smooth it--we get it rough enough in town. But let us live the simple, natural life in the woods, and leave all frills behind."~Nessmuk, quoted from Horace Kephart's Camping and Woodcraft

"Hike your own hike." Said by almost everyone I met on the AT. This simple phrase meant a lot to me on the trail. It is important to achieve your goals on the trail and in life. Don't focus on the priorities of others.

There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of nature and has his senses still.There was never yet such a stormbut it was Aeolian music to a healthy and innocent ear. -Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Here I am, safely returnedover those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strangethan anything I had hoped for or imagined--how is it that this safe return brings such regret? -Peter Matthiessen

"We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes--something known only to her and to the mountain." -Aldo Leopold

"How can you explain that you need to know that the trees are still there, and the hills and the sky? Anyone knows they are. How can you say it is time your pulse responded to another rhythm, the rhythm of the day and the season instead of the hour and the minute? No, you cannot explain. So you walk." - Anon

The outdoors, the beautiful environment, both in fresh and salt water. And the thing that concerns me is the amount of kids that stand on street corners, or go into pinball parlours, and call it recreation.

"I only want that I can be used to better your life, and the life of others, and that one day, my legacy will be one of service because I had the time to serve you, instead of the felt need to worry about my own complicated little world." Ryan Jordan on The Futility of Going Ultralight for Ultralight's Sake

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